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The heavy bomber departed Robins AFB at 0830LT on a test flight part of the Project 'Banshee', carrying 8 crew members and five engineers, all civilians. About an hour into the flight, the engine n°1 caught fire and two others lost power. Instruction was given to abandon the airplane and four occupants were able to bail out before the airplane entered an uncontrolled descent and crashed in an open field located south of Waycross. All nine people who remained on board were killed while all four p
Boeing B-29 Superfortress · 9 fatalities